Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia. with a Map - Scholar's Choice Edition


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Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia


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Chap.4; Natives on Mainland off Whitsunday Passage cannibalism prevalent; Chap.5; Contact with natives at Escape Cliffs (Woolna) & Darwin (Larrakiah); Chap.7; Nilunga, King of Larrakiahs, womens camp life; intertribal conflict with Woolna tribe; types of weapons, corroborees; Chap.17; Attack by Woolna natives; Chap.20; Murders at Barrow Creek, Daly Waters & Port Essington; Chap.21; Murder of Mr Travers by natives at Limmen Bight River; Chap.22; Daly River murders (Woggite tribe); Chap.23; Jesuit mission at Rapid Creek (about 7 miles from Palmerston); Chap.24; Daly River Mission; relations between Malays & Aborigines (Wessel Island); Chap.26; Cave paintings in Limmin River area; Chap.27; Need for definite native policy.




Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia


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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.




Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia The first three years of my sketch, viz., from 1870 to 1873, are written entirely from memory, unaided by notes, journals, or letters; and as my relatives who were with me then, are now scattered all over the world, I have been deprived of the help they would have given me. The latter part of the book I have compiled from every authentic source I have had access to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







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Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe's enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.